Damian Thompson is Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was once described by The Church Times as a "blood-crazed ferret". He is on Twitter as HolySmoke. His latest book is The Fix: How addiction is taking over your world. He also writes about classical music for The Spectator.

Coming soon: a Holy Smoke special report on the hijacking of the Catholic Bishops' Conference

I've been doing some rooting around the network of pressure groups surrounding the Catholic Bishops' Conference, and what I've discovered should disturb all orthodox Catholics, not just conservatives or enthusiasts for the Latin Mass.

Give me a few days to put together the evidence, and I'll post a special report on this blog. Meanwhile, let me repeat what I said the other day.

Catholic philanthropists should NOT give money to the Bishops' Conference "Faith in the Future" appeal for £8.4 million to fund its initiatives, because the conference has failed to reform itself and is still being manipulated by Left-wing activists whose agendas are secular, not Catholic.